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Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook got into a verbal altercation with a Utah Jazz fan on Monday night, making threats toward both the fan and his wife.
The incident has sparked wide debate among NBA media and fans as to whether or not the 2017 MVP was out of line for his actions.
Like many others, San Antonio Spurs guard DeMar DeRozan thinks that Westbrook probably didn't react that way for no reason:
“I really can't speak on it too much, because I don't know exactly what happened,” DeRozan said, according to Jeff McDonald of The San Antonio Express-News. “Knowing Russ personally, there's a good reason he went off the way he did. He just wouldn't do it for nothing. But I don't know exactly what was said.”
DeRozan went on to add that some fans take things too far:
“It's always that one fan that takes it a little too far, feels like they're entitled to say whatever,” DeRozan said. “There's things I've heard (said) to other players that wasn't right. It can happen anywhere.”
The 29-year-old Spurs star concluded by saying that all players react to fans at some point, but it's just a matter of whether or not it gets caught on tape:
“We all have some type of reaction, some how, some way at some point,” DeRozan said. “It's just a matter of whether we got caught on camera with it. It just happens to be a place where Russ had a different altercation with fans and somebody caught in on tape. Sometimes fans are looking to pull reactions out of players and have their camera phones ready. He just happened to be caught on camera.”
